Vicia luteaL. Yellow Vetch

Vicia luteaL. - Yellow Vetch

Scientific Description:

Annual, subglabrous to hirsute, ascending, erect or climbing, 14−80(−100) cm. Leaflets (3−)5−9(−10)−paired, 5−25(−30) × (1−)2−6 mm, linear to narrowly elliptic or oblong, acute to subretuse; stipules less than 6 mm, semi-hastate or triangular 2−3-partite; tendrils mostly branched. Peduncle obsolescent. Pedicel much shorter than calyx. Flowers 1(−2), 17−30 mm, yellowish or violet. Calyx 10−13 mm, with an oblique mouth, glabrous; teeth unequal, narrowly triangular to lanceolate-subulate, the lower slightly longer than tube. Standard with limb usually somewhat shorter than claw. Legume oblong-linear to rhomboid-oblong, 20−33 × 7−12(−13) mm, recurved and beaked, hirsute with ± tubercled hairs. Seeds 3−6, hilum 1/4−1/6 of perimeter.

var. hirta

Generally pilose-hirsute; leaflets ± acuminate and mucronate; corolla pale yellow or purple-violet; legumes densely hirsute-sericeous with hairs conspicuously tubercled at base and whitish to reddish towards maturity.

Flowering time: March−June.

Habitat: Fields, s.l.−700 m.

Reference:

Davis PH & Plitmann U (1970). Vicia lutea L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 3: 311.

Public Description:

Vicia lutea var. hirta, known as “yellow vetch”, is native to Europe, western Asia, and North Africa, and it is known on other continents as an introduced species. It is an annual herb with yellowish or violet flowers, up to 100 cm in length. It has leaves made up of several pairs of oblong or linear leaflets each 1 to 2 cm long. It blooms between March and June and is found in fields.

References:

Anonymous (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicia_lutea//, Accessed date: 13.02.2016.

Ertekin S A (2012). Vicia L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 500–505.